Sofia Richie picked the wrong moment in time to complain about having a bad hair day.

On Tuesday, the 21-year-old model, who is best known lately for dating much-older Kardashian family extra Scott Disick, took to Instagram to point her 5.8 million followers to her messy bun.

Not surprisingly, Richie incited righteous social media outrage and accusations of being “tone-deaf” and “breathtakingly dumb.” That’s because she joked that the legendarily dangerous Santa Ana winds had caused blonde tendrils to fall playfully on either side of her face.

“Santa Ana winds — messy bun,” Richie captioned her photo that showed her posing on a staircase, wearing a T-shirt, gold jeans, very high heels and French-tipped nails.

Meanwhile, millions of people across Los Angeles have far graver concerns about the Santa Ana winds. These extremely strong, dry winds, known as the “devil winds,” are fanning the flames of two out-of-control fires that have destroyed 12 homes and forced thousands to evacuate their homes.

Richie shared her messy bun photo after the Getty Fire broke out early Monday morning, near the Getty Center and the 405 freeway. As of Wednesday, the blaze had spread to more than 700 acres and was only 27 percent contained. Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James and actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are among the residents who have had to evacuate.

The Easy Fire broke out Wednesday morning just north of Los Angeles in Ventura County. It quickly grew to more than 1,000 acres, due to the fierce winds and other treacherous fire conditions. It was threatening homes near the Reagan Library.

The National Weather Service issued a rare “extreme red flag warning” at 11 p.m. Tuesday for much of Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to a Santa Ana wind that “could be one of the strongest of recent memory,” the Los Angeles Times reported. The warning was expected to continue through 6 p.m. Thursday.

Meanwhile, the Kincade Fire continues to burn in Sonoma County north of San Francisco, and it too has been driven by historically strong winds. The Kincade Fire has scorched more than 76,000 acres of wine country, destroyed 206 structures, forced the evacuations of the towns of Healdsburg and Windsor and is only 30 percent contained.

With such news coming this week, people seeing Richie’s Instagram post let her have it for griping that the winds had left her bun slightly, but stylishly, askew, Fox News reported.

“Ugh, how dare you state why your hair is slightly wind blown!!! ..when thousands of people have (lost) their homes due to wind , fires … just not right girly. omfg!!!!” one user commented, Fox News reported.

Perhaps realizing the error of her ways, Richie again took to Instagram. In an Instagram Story, she didn’t apologize for her messy-bun comment but acknowledged that she might actually understand the real danger of the Santa Ana winds.

“Sending my payers and love to everyone affected by the fires,” she wrote. “Tonight’s wind is going to be brutal. Stay safe.”

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.

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